The Motorola VE66 is a phone which takes us back to a time when phones looked and felt solid.
It's a pleasant looking slider phone with a plethora of functions and features that are sure to keep anyone amused for hours.
The phone is realistically a compact media centre offering the means to access downloaded music and radio as well as being an effective means of taking photos.
The phone offers an impressive 5 mega pixel camera with a resolution of 2560 x 1920 pixels.
The photo tools provided with this phone includes auto focus and an LED flash.
The camera also provides the means to capture video footage, which it does with consummate ease and produces good quality video playback.
Both these options allow for alternative means of capturing those special moments to savour at a later date or to view on the impressive TFT screen.
The display screen on the phone is an impressive 2.
2 inches with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels.
The screen displays 256,000 colours and their respective variants to give a realistic and life like image on the screen.
Musical interlude is provided by the entertaining built in MP3 player and FM stereo radio.
The MP3 player will play most audio file formats downloaded onto it, including MP3, WMA, WAV and AAC++, the availability of the different file types means that the choice of audio file type to use can be decided by the user, which can help to save space in the memory.
The memory is a suitably large 110 Mb internally and can be expanded by taking advantage of the microSD slot.
Connectivity is available in several formats, Wi-Fi, blue tooth and microUSB, all of which provide the ability to connect to various mediums and transfer files, synchronise with a PC or simply browse the web.
The Motorola VE66 is a phone which commands respect, its exterior provides a robust built phone which houses internally a variety of functions that are suited to the modern consumer, the camera, MP3 player and the other functions are all demanded by the public within a mobile phone in today's modern society and this phone delivers.
Its sturdy looks are reminiscent of an era when phones looked indestructible and this phone continues to have that type of feel to it.